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This weekly exploration into the Berkshires arts world offers behind-the-scenes insights with news, exclusive interviews, and analysis of the ever-fluid state of our cultural organizations.

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CleanWill Call #70: Love’s Labour’s perfectly Lost at The Dell.

Reading Time: 8 minutes This week’s show takes us to The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home, in Lenox Massachusetts. Weather permitting, Shakespeare & Company presents William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost under the open sky at The Dell.

Reading Time: 3 minutes EXPLICIT. Named one of the top ten theatre experiences of 2016 by the New York Times, "Underground Railroad Game" is a vivid, piercing piece of experimental performance from Philadelphia-based company Lightning Rod Special.

Reading Time: 6 minutes We’re coming up this week on the first anniversary of the Women’s March, the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, with half a million attendees showing up for the flagship event in Washington D.C.

Reading Time: 3 minutes We speak with Paula Hatch, executive director of the Berkshire Bach Society, about this New Year’s event and look forward to 2018. Also on is Travis Daly to talk about "A Christmas Carol," staged by Berkshire Theatre Group.

Reading Time: 6 minutes PLUS a sneak peek (well, more of a sneak listen) to our 1st place storyteller Jennifer Holey telling her tale about “Little Creatures” at the inaugural batch of the new Berkshire Yarn Mill’s live story event!

Reading Time: 3 minutes This is Will Call, #62—We travel this episode to somewhere in the Midwest to meet high school women’s soccer team The Wolves. Rather we’ll speak with Misha Chowdhury, who directs this Williams Theatre Department staging of

Reading Time: 4 minutes Amy Holzapfel Chair, Associate Professor of Theatre at Williams College, moderates a discussion about the politics of participatory performance, and the lessons and practices it can share with democratic assembly in public spac.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Tony Trischka and Territory brings some legendary American Roots cred to the Barn Music Summer Series at Hancock Shaker Village. This is Will Call, #60—I’m your host, Jason Velazquez, and I thank you for tuning in.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Story Event at The Bennington Center for the Arts focus on “Stories About Us.” What is Story Night Review? The biggest Story Night yet at the beautiful Bennington Center for the Arts!

Reading Time: 6 minutes Spirit and Song tie both this episode and much of the creative community. This is Will Call, #58—I’m your host, Jason Velazquez, and I thank you for tuning in. This episode is sponsored by the Williamstown Theatre Festiva

Reading Time: 5 minutes (from supplied release) HANCOCK, Mass.—Blend a country band with early R&B, throw in a hefty amount of vocal harmonies and witty one-liners, and rock out like The Band. That’s what you’ll get Thursday, July 13,

Reading Time: 4 minutes until / UNTIL WordXWord and Lift Ev’ry Voice collaborate in a poetic response to Nick Cave’s UNTIL Pittsfield, MA – WordXWord and the Lift Ev’ry Voice Festival have collaborated to invite poets to participate in a per

Reading Time: 3 minutes This episode is number 55.10, which means that it concludes our special coverage of the 10 X 10 Upstreet Arts Festival going on in Pittsfield lo these many days. We have had such a wonderful time,

Reading Time: 2 minutes The 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival returns to Dottie’s in 2017! You’re listening to micro-episode 55.9, in which I have speak with very special guest Tom Attila Lewis about the 10X10 Comedy Show.

Reading Time: 2 minutes We speak in this micro-cast with Danielle Steinmann, president of the Berkshire Art Association, and Sara Clement, a photographer who is one of the many artists who have contributed to this much anticipated tradition of the 10X.

Reading Time: 1 minute This is a special bonus episode connected with our coverage of the 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival taking place in Pittsfield now through February 26. We’ll be airing 10 episodes running 10 minutes each throughout the duration of

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a special bonus episode connected with our coverage of the 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival taking place in Pittsfield now through February 26. We’ll be airing 10 episodes running 10 minutes each throughout the duration of

Reading Time: 1 minute Running In Stillness On February 24, Danza Orgánica, a Boston-based Contemporary Dance Theater Company, will lead a free Dance for Social Justice Movement Workshop at the Boys and Girls Club and perform excerpts from their work,

Reading Time: 1 minute Tom Coash’s full-length play, “Veils,” set in Cairo at the beginning of the Arab Spring, played at Barrington Stage in the fall of 2015. He says an experience from “Veils” inspired him to write the shorter work that app

Reading Time: 1 minute This is a special bonus episode connected with our coverage of the 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival taking place in Pittsfield now through February 26. We’ll be airing 10 episodes running 10 minutes each throughout the duration of

Reading Time: 3 minutes Bacon & God’s Wrath – excerpt from sol friedman on Vimeo. This is a special bonus episode connected with our coverage of the 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival taking place in Pittsfield now through February 26.

Reading Time: 4 minutes We speak with artist and activist Diane Firtell about the “CHAIRity” exhibition and silent auction taking place at Dottie’s Coffee Lounge as part of the 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival.

ExplicitWill Call #54: Standing Together Against Othering in the Berkshires

Reading Time: 8 minutes In the wake of the November election, people across the country have seen fear and anger and exclusion become part of a national public conversation. Many people are sharing the experience of feeling that they do not belong in .

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ensemble of five proves that It’s a Wonderful Life (yes, still!) Today is Tuesday, December 13, and this is Episode #53 of Will Call. I’m your host and pretender to the Will Call throne, Jason Velázquez,

Reading Time: 4 minutes A Talk with Beryl Jolly You’re listening to 52 of Will Call, released on a brilliant and beautiful Saturday, November 19, 2016. I’m your host, Jason Velázquez, and I thank you so much for joining us.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Pittsfield, Mass.—The Board of Trustees of Hancock Shaker Village announced Wednesday, September 14 the appointment of Jennifer Trainer Thompson as president and chief executive officer. Ms.

CleanWill Call #49: (Not) Tip-toeing Around the Issues with the Capitol Steps

Reading Time: 4 minutes LENOX, Mass. — If you’ve ever wanted to see Hillary Clinton belt a show tune, Donald Trump sing a rock song, or New Jersey Governor Chris Christie perform a classical ballet, The Capitol Steps might just be the show for you.

Reading Time: 3 minutes William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” brings together some very talented local flotsam. In this episode, we were lucky enough to catch Enrico Spada, founder and artistic director of Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park,

Reading Time: 4 minutes Governor Charlie Baker issued a budget veto on July 8 that would slash funding for the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) by more than half.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Governor Charlie Baker issued a budget veto on July 8 that would slash funding for the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) by more than half.

CleanWill Call #45 — Rebirth of a Legend, Rebirth of a Landmark with Orpheus in the Berkshires

Reading Time: 3 minutes Like Summer itself, “Orpheus in the Berkshires” enters the scene with a flourish. A wildflower bouquet of textures and colors, the piece immediately charms, providing just the right touch at this season’s picnic of theatre

Reading Time: 2 minutes A Whimsical Fantasy Celebrating the Arts The Berkshire Mountain Faerie Festival makes its debut in Adams, June 25, with activities, music, arts, and magic for believers of all ages. aaa When: June 25th,

CleanWill Call #43 — Special Summer Solstice Episode: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Reading Time: 14 minutes We celebrate the Summer Solstice with one of the Summery-est passages we know. Enjoy! The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (Full text available at Project Gutenberg) VII. THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN The Willow-Wren

CleanWill Call #42 — Though FIGMENT It May Be, Yet Just as Real as You Could Dream

Reading Time: 3 minutes FIGMENT, a free, family-friendly participatory arts event held in multiple cities and attracting tens of thousands of participants each year, has announced their inaugural North Adams event.

CleanWill Call #41 — Now’s the Time to Start Getting Down with DownStreet Art!

Reading Time: 2 minutes Berkshire Cultural Resource Center Program Manager Michelle Daly joins us for our first show after our Winter hiatus. And somehow she’s the perfect guest to have on this episode in which we celebrate Spring while we look forwa

Reading Time: 4 minutes Deirdre Flynn Sullivan joins us again for a Young Adult and Children’s Literature episode of “Will Call,” and she chooses the “Hero’s Journey” as our topic, which seems an appropriate, if less than obvious,

Reading Time: 3 minutes WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A special “Home for the Holidays”concert on Friday, December 18 at 6 pm at The Williams Inn will benefit Higher Ground of Northern Berkshire, the non-profit that supports community members displaced b

CleanWill Call #38 — Who the Heck is Steve Goodman? Ask Elaine St. George

Reading Time: 2 minutes Award-winning New York cabaret singer Elaine St. George talks about her new CD of songs by Steve Goodman – one of the best songwriters no one has ever heard of (although you know his music.) Elaine St.

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s a grand celebration of the American West with the Festival of Trees 2015: Westward Ho Ho Ho! on view to the public from Saturday, November 14, 2015, through Sunday, January 3, 2016.

Reading Time: 3 minutes We speak again with our ever-generous guest Michelle Daly of the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Michelle discusses some of the exceptional events coming up in December,

Reading Time: 3 minutes Williamstown Artist Open Studios will be having a pre-holiday event, showcasing some of the most dazzling work from local artists of a variety of disciplines. Williamstown Artist Open Studios Stephanie Boyd: November 28,

Reading Time: 2 minutes We speak with Josh Aaron McCabe and Ally Allen of the Shakespeare & Company Education Department, as well as Luc Park, senior at Mt. Greylock Regional School, who will be playing one of three Macbeths in William Shakespeare’s